The goal of this conference is to assemble a small group of leading, methodologically-oriented, researchers on networks. The conference will bring together academic and industry researchers in econometrics and statistics. For more information on the venue and the latest programme, please visit the Berkeley website.
Sponsors: UC Berkeley, NSF and CeMMAP
Provisional Programme:
| Friday 4 November 2016 | ||
| 11:40 – 12:30 | Registration and lunch | |
| Session 1: Block models & Heterogeneity | ||
| 12:30 – 13:10 | Peter Bickel (Berkeley) | Block Models with Covariates: Likelihood Methods of Fitting (joint with Purna Sarkar, U.T. Austin, Soumendu Mukherjee, Berkeley, and Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya, Oregon State) |
| 13:10 – 13:50 | Stephane Bonhomme (Chicago) | Discretizing Unobserved Heterogeneity (joint with Thibaut Lamadon, Chicago, and Elena Manresa, NYU) |
| 13:50 – 14:10 | Coffee break | |
| Session 2: TBA | ||
| 14:10 – 14:50 | Angelo Mele (Hopkins) | |
| 14:50 – 15:30 | Peter Hoff (Duke) | |
| 15:30 – 15:50 | Coffee break | |
| Session 3: Experiments & Spillovers | ||
| 15:50 – 16:30 | Edoardo M. Airoldi (Harvard) | Two Model-Assisted Strategies for Designing Experiments on Networks |
| 16:30 – 17:10 | Dean Eckles (MIT) | Estimating Peer Effects in Social Networks with Peer Encouragement Designs |
| 17:10 – 17:50 | Chris Rose (Toulouse) | Social Effects when the Network is Unobserved and Sparse |
| 18:45 | Speakers’ dinner (invitation only) | |
| Saturday 5 November 2016 | ||
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Breakfast | |
| Session 4: Strategic Interaction | ||
| 09:00 – 09:40 | Michael Leung (USC) | Normal Approximation in Strategic Network Formation |
| 09:40 – 10:20 | Konrad Menzel (NYU) | Many Player Asymptotics for Large Network Formation Problems |
| 10:20 – 11:00 | Geert Ridder (USC) | Estimation of Large Network Formation Games (joint with Shuyang Sheng, UCLA) |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Coffee break | |
| Session 5: Link formation with Heterogeneity | ||
| 11:20 – 12:00 | Andreas Dzemski (Gothenberg) | An Empirical Model of Dyadic Link Formation in a Network with Unobserved Heterogeneity |
| 12:00 – 12:40 | Ivan Fernandez-Val (BU) | Panel Quantile Effects Via Distribution Regression (joint with Victor Chernozhukov, MIT, and Martin Weidner, UCL) |
| 12:40 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
| Session 6: High dimensional models | ||
| 14:00 – 14:40 | Roger Moon (USC) | Estimation of High-Dimensional Graphical Models with Shape Restriction |
| 14:40 – 15:20 | Martin Weidner (UCL) | Fixed-Effect Regressions on Network Data (joint with Koen Jochmans, Sciences Po) |